@OctaneMark

Contributing editor to Octane magazine and partial to anything with a V8. Failed archaeologist in a previous life.

 Herefordshire
octane-magazine.com
Joined July 2011
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The crazy price of diesel has had an unexpected side-effect. My daily drivers are a 1970 Rover 3500S and 1998 Isuzu Trooper 3.1Td. Running the former on Super Unleaded is not costing me an awful lot more now than the diesel 4x4 – about 31ppm compared with 36ppm. Every cloud etc!
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Sorry, figures transposed! 36ppm for the Rover, 31ppm for the Isuzu.
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“This is not just a classic daily driver, this is an M&S classic daily driver” 😁
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Excuse me?!!
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Couple of hours this morning on my favourite Sussex beach – which is rapidly being eroded by the sea to give strong ‘Planet of the Apes’ vibes - yielded finds ranging from a nice piece of a Roman Black Burnished Ware bowl, c140-250 AD, to a 1980s Golden Wonder crisp packet 😁
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That’s an insane amount of ordnance to find in just one month, 108 years after the end of WW1. Eighteen tons!
Genevra Charsley
@FlandersBTourFeb 6
Iron harvest figures for January 2026 “The month of January was a good start to the year. We had a total of 191 requests and approximately 18 tons of ammunition were found. Have you found ammunition? Stay away, call the police and DOVO will do the rest!” 📸 DOVO Sedee #IronHarvest
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My neighbours’ cat often does this, sometimes in the middle of the floor. I’ve never seen such behaviour before. Any theories?
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Erm, except that no.1 is not currently lived in, and certainly not by anyone called ‘Jim’. But it was clearly too much trouble for the @DPD_UKHelp24 driver to knock at the correct address, no.2, you know, THE ONE THAT IS LITERALLY ATTACHED AND HAS A MASSIVE ‘2’ ON THE FRONT.
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What banks think ‘in a flash’ means. Both from the same email.
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Herefordshire had suddenly gone all Ladybird Books ‘What to look for in summer’ 😊
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If Carling did passenger rides…
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Anyone else had a letter like this recently? I’ve had two, for my Landy and Volvo (both correctly insured), respectively. Response from my broker in the comments. It would be interesting to hear how widespread this issue is.
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Tweet and response of the day 👌
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Gotta love the British sense of humour 😊
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My local garage - and Jamie wins the internet today 😁 (see comment below pic)
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Tell me you are a @dailytelegraph writer based in London without etc etc 🙄
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Went for a stroll on my favourite Sussex beach this eve. Found lots of prehistoric material here last year due to rapid erosion but today this solitary sherd was my only reward. Very coarse fabric, hand formed rather than wheel thrown, so I’m guessing Late Bronze Age 1200-500 BC.
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…and in glorious close-up. My mate Bill, who lives locally, has recovered literally thousands of artefacts here over the last 25 years, including a complete Roman funerary urn (X-rayed at Fishbourne to reveal partial remains of a young female).
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